Content
88%Weight 40%Scale 1-5Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a strong troubleshooting skill body: it front-loads a symptom-driven decision tree, provides executable commands throughout, and includes explicit validation and feedback loops. The main costs are duplicated symptom coverage between the diagnosis tree and the pattern table, and rationale prose that could be trimmed; a bundle split of the lookup tables would reduce SKILL.md size.
Suggestions
De-duplicate the deploy/function failure entries that appear in both the Quick Diagnosis tree and the Common Issue Patterns table — have the tree point at the table for detail instead of restating causes.
Trim the design rationale in the "connection issue" section (why the rotating token design is safer) to just the cause, the fix, and the anti-patterns to avoid.
Move the Common Issue Patterns table and Visual Debugging sections into a references/ file (e.g., references/patterns.md), keeping SKILL.md to the diagnosis tree and core procedures.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense with proprietary Falcon Foundry knowledge Claude cannot already know (CLI commands, error-code-to-cause mappings), delivered mostly as decision trees and tables rather than explanation. Not 5: there is real duplication — deploy/function failure patterns appear in both the Quick Diagnosis tree and the Common Issue Patterns table — and the "connection issue" section spends tokens on design rationale ("a rotating 30-minute token beats a long-lived one") beyond what action requires. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Nearly every section is copy-paste-ready commands with flags and placeholders (e.g., "foundry functions exec --handler my_handler '{\"key\": \"value\"}' --no-prompt", "pkill -f \"foundry ui\""), and the log-pattern table maps symptoms to concrete fixes. Not 4: examples are executable and cover the common cases across functions, deploy, auth, and headless environments. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The Function Runtime Debugging section is an explicit Step 1–5 sequence ending in a fix→redeploy→re-execute feedback loop, deployment diagnostics explains when to validate vs deploy, install-failure debugging is a numbered isolation procedure, and the Pre-Escalation Checklist closes the loop. Not 4: validation checkpoints and error-recovery loops are explicit, not implicit. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist (references/, scripts/, assets/ are absent), and the single file is well-sectioned with a navigable Quick Diagnosis tree up front; the one external pointer ("See e2e-testing/references/debugging-with-mcp.md") is one level deep and clearly signaled. Not 5: at ~336 lines, the Common Issue Patterns table and the UI/visual-debugging material are candidates for a references file, keeping SKILL.md closer to an overview. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |